Luke 8:9-11

⁹And his disciples were questioning him, saying, 'What may this simile be?'

¹⁰And he said, 'To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.

¹¹'And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,